Junior: September 2005 Archives

Magda has given up on belly crawling and uses her hands and knees to get around -- and quite rapidly, too. It's nice for her to be able to get wherever she wants (unless we scoop her up away from the water bowl or oven) and it's nice for us to be able to move to another room and for her to follow.

She's recently started raising herself up on things and is often on her knees reaching up the ottoman or the side table or hugging your leg. Last night during her bath, she decided she'd had enough of getting her hair washed and almost seemed to tried to climb out of the tub. She's changing a lot from the chubby, uncoordinated baby into a toddler with destinations on her mind. The world that's accessible to her is expending on a daily basis.

Oh, and she says mama and tata and means it!

Magda has recently transitioned from doing the commando crawl to scurrying around on her hands and knees. She still reverts to the belly crawl when she gets tired, but she can now travel good distances and fairly fast, too. Not just to the nearest toy, but from living room to kitchen -- often heading for the nearest dog bowl.

I've managed to install the plexiglass to protect our DVR from her grubby fingers. Of course, it then took her a day or two before she got interested in it again and tried to mess with the blinking lights. Thwarted -- bwuah-ha-ha!